Senior Bioinformatician

• Collaborate with biologists to understand and document analytical and data management requirements
• Clinical genetic data analysis and reporting
• Conduct research, lead development of bioinformatics software tools and curated databases
• Develop coherent and integrated software and databases for biological problems
• Develop data-analysis strategies, write algorithms, and deploy computational tools for the exploration of large datasets
• Develop bioinformatics pipelines for analyzing NGS and metabolomics data
• Write programs to generate genome-wide datasets for statistical genetics
• Analyze, review and modify programs to increase operating efficiency or to adapt to new requirements
• Work with various technologies to develop software solutions as part of research infrastructure
• Assist, collaborate, and consult with internal/external researchers on analyses of NGS data
• Automate tasks using shell scripting
• Conduct QA and validation of deposited data and metadata
• Document program development, logic, coding and modifications

• 4+ years of bioinformatics programming experience in an industry or academic setting
• Demonstrated experience as scientific programmer
• Very strong in Perl, Python, JAVA, C, C++, BioPerl, and shell in Linux environment
• Experience in MySQL database design and development
• Experience in web-based MVC application framework
• Proficiency in object-oriented design and development
• Experience in statistical programming using R preferably in genomics or genetic
• Knowledge in Molecular biology and Biostatistics (preferable)

Experience in RUST programming will be added advantage